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[tenminutes]

Two questions!

1. How many people here are cursed and/or have powers they don't want?

2. How do you buy a house the first time? Do they have houses that people can buy here? Or rent, maybe.. Either way, the apartment's going to get a little cramped soon.

[ She actually isn't sure how much it would even be so she doesn't know if that's a thing that can happen. ]

3. Is there a good Japanese food place around here somewhere?

Oops, that was three. Sorry, I missed lunch today.

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[ifbymyhands]

That's what people here should start going into. Real estate.

[tenminutes]

It'd be helpful.

The lease on the apartment is paid for a few months already if I do end up moving out, Kano.

[ifbymyhands]

Where are you looking to go?

*not asked: "did you and Battler have another stupid fight again is this what's going on because if I had 100 yen for every one of those I could buy you a mansion, Yuri, I swear"*

[tenminutes]

I don't know, but I assume you probably don't want to be sharing an apartment with Battler and me at the same time.

[ Pretty much the opposite of having had a stupid fight with him, at least. ]

Maybe somewhere close to the school so I can sleep in a little in the morning.

[ifbymyhands]

Oho~?

[tenminutes]

What are you "oho"ing about? I work at the school, I want to sleep in, and Battler is my boyfriend and if in the event that someday we get back to that stage o-of boyfriend-girlfriend things then I don't want you walking in on it, stupid!

[ifbymyhands]

Back to? I missed something.

[tenminutes]

Well- I mean, it happened. Once. Before I disappeared. That's all the detail you're getting and it's not hard to figure out if you know anything about relationships, dumbass.

[ifbymyhands]

I'm invested in my friends' love lives, okay.

[chestboard]

1. Hey I'm feeling pretty okay in that department!

2. ...uh, I wouldn't know. Are you running away from me now, Yuri?

And 3. If you find out tell me!! I would love some!

[tenminutes]

1. I wasn't asking you. There's a person with deadly powers around and a person with really bad luck around and it's stupid and unfair that they have to suffer because of something like that.

2. No, you're coming with me and you have to look at houses with me, stupid. I was looking at how much stuff you have and with my stuff and Kano's stuff, there wouldn't be enough room. At least not with how much yelling and throwing of things that happens between the two of us- and if we happen to want to.. do boyfriend-girlfriend things, then I don't exactly want to have to remember to put your tie on the door every time or worry about if you're being too noisy.

[ She says that like he's the noisier one at any given time of the day. ]

3. I'll let you know. I've really been wanting some good beef udon lately..

[chestboard]

Riiight right oka--....

[....!!!]

Hold on! What...?! Wait, we're really moving in together?! To a real house...?!

[tenminutes]

If I can find one. I tried to tell you before.

[ Remember those phone calls..? ]

[chestboard]

...No you didn't.

[totally didn't.]

[tenminutes]

No, but I tried to. Things just kept coming up. Remember when the paper guy broke my window, then the doorbell, then the raccoon, then when we were doing that weird ruins-adventure thing...

[chestboard]

....That was all for telling me you wanted to move in with me?!

[tenminutes]

Yeah, but it kept not working so I decided to just try to find a house and then steal your things if you didn't figure it out.

[crash_mage]

As for that first question... I suppose it kind of depends on the nature of the power and... well, hindsight really.

[After all, the thought has entered into his mind a few times that if he didn't have that abnormal reserve of magic energy, he would be forced to take smaller jobs... and then his marriage might not have fallen through, and could've spent more time with the kid he didn't know he had until just recently.]

To the second, if you need any space, I think we have a couple spare rooms at the Fairy Tail guild hall in Fayren.

...and what's a Japanese?

[tenminutes]

Hindsight is 20-20 and all that. I was talking more about people who have really bad issues with things like chronic real bad luck that functions like a curse or whatever Zeref's magic of death and doom and gloom is. So I know at least two, though I don't really know who the first person is..

[ Her descriptions of these things are very professional. She's definitely a magic expert, clearly. ]

Well I have an apartment already, it's more of a.. a thing with a person who I want to move in with and have a house with and stupid things that you do when you're alive.

[ This is a complete stranger, straight out saying that she wants to get a house with her boyfriend is legitimately too embarrassing for her to not beat around the bush. ]

Japanese is a type of people from a country called Japan. Japanese food is the type of food that Japanese people make, like udon or yakiniku. But not natto because even if that's Japanese, it's not really food; it's just a gross mess.

[crash_mage]

[His face darkens a bit.]

Zeref is... well, let's just say he's kind of reaping what he planted. In my world, Zeref is a legendary black mage that could create demons. From the demon called Lullaby that could kill anything that heard the sound it made, to the demon Deliora that rampaged across an entire continent and left nothing but destruction in its wake. I can't say I have too much sympathy for him, really... but if he truly regrets what he's done... I suppose even he could turn over a new leaf.

[Of course, it doesn't take much thought to figure out what she's talking with, so have a bit of a trolling grin.]

I'll keep my eyes open for any vacant love nests for ya.

[Gildarts blinks a bit, recognizing some of those food names.]

Huh... there's no Japan in our world, but... we definitely have those foods.

[tenminutes]

I'm pretty sure he does. We've all made mistakes in our lives. His might be bigger than most, but he's living in solitude to make sure no one gets hurt. I think that's reason enough not to judge him for it since it's in the past. I won't speak for you, since it sounds like you're probably from his world so you can feel however you want about it, but I've been around enough messed up people who have done messed up things to know when someone doesn't want to keep doing it.

[ She sees that grin.. those words.. Yep, she's blushing and is about to start yelling. ]

I-It's not a love nest, moron! Don't call it weird things, it's just a house! A HOUSE!

[ God, she's going to try to move on from that with the conversation..!! ]

So you have Japanese foods with Japanese names but you're from another world. What if you're from a world that is Japan but it's not called Japan?

[crash_mage]

Where I'm standing, it's hard to separate the man from his works. Deliora alone killed thousands, orphaned one of my guild-mates, and even took his master from him. He's kind of like an adopted son to me and... I'm not sure I can ever fully forgive Deliora or Zeref for that.

[He tries to grin, pushing the reports he saw about Deliora out of his mind for the moment.]

Suuuuuuuuuure. It's nothing to be ashamed of, you know.

[He shrugs a bit.] I have no idea honestly. Trying to make sense of all these different worlds kinda makes my brain hurt at times.

[tenminutes]

I don't blame you. Sometimes things happen that you can't forgive people for and you definitely don't owe him forgiveness. I still want to help him though, and I'd think you would want to too. Not for his sake, but if he's still afraid that something will happen, I can't see why you wouldn't want to help find a way to suppress them. I just want to make it so he doesn't have to worry about accidentally killing someone here.

[ Yuri is just going to intentionally ignore the part about the loves nest now. Her tsun levels make it hard to want to even face that, but she still looks flustered. ]

--Either way, if you know what they are, is there somewhere that makes them here?

[crash_mage]

It's not really an issue of wanting. It's a matter of trust. For 400 years, he was hiding out on my guild's sacred ground, is the source of countless deaths, and forged so many weapons that could bring entire nations to their knees that... I'm not so sure he is regretful. There's too much I don't know to really trust his intentions. If you can look past that, more power to you.

[He thinks for a minute, looking around.]

I think I saw a ramen shop around here somewhere.

[tenminutes]

He's out willingly squatting in bushes to use the bathroom as far as I can tell so he can avoid people, so I'm willing to try at least. If he wanted to hurt people, it isn't like it would be hard to. Either way, you can judge him all you want, but it's not my place. Even if completely understand why you wouldn't want him to.

[ She's certainly not for people who cause deaths, but she doesn't think he's a bad guy. At least here. ]

Really? Where is it!?